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AP Vocab from W
Question | Answer |
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British Recieved Pronuncation | the dialect used by the upper class in England |
creole or creolized language | A language that results from the mixing of a colonizers language with the lamguage of the people being dominated |
Denglish | combination of German and English |
Dialect | A regional veriety of a language distinguished by vocabularty spelling and prounciation |
Ebonics | dialect spoken by some african americans |
Extinct Language | A language that was once used |
Franglais | english words that have entered the french language |
Ideograms | The system of writing used in China and other asia countries that represent an idea with a symbol |
isogloss | a boundry that seprates regions in which diffrent languages are used |
Isolated Language | a language that is unrelated to any other languages |
Language | a system of communication that through the use of speech,symols,and sounds |
Lamguage family | a collection of languages realated to each other by comon anscestor |
Lingua Franca | A language used in trade by people who have diffrent native languges |
Literary tradition | a language that is written and spoken |
Offical language | adopted by the use of goverment for a country |
What are the Romance Languages ? | French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese |
What are the Germanic Languages ? | English, German, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish |
What are the Boltic-Slavic Languages ? | Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukranian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croation and Bulgarian |
Pidgin Language | a form of speech that adopts a simplified grammer of the lingua franca |
Spanglish | Combniation of spanish and english |
Standard language | the langugae used for offical goverment buisness education |
Vulguar latin | latin used in daily conversations |